Packing device for valve stems



Sept. 4, 1928. 1,683,293

A. c. LINDBLOOM PAKING DEVICE FOR VALVE STEMS Filed Dec. 19, 1925 4 Patented Sept. 4, v1928..

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ALBERT C. LINDBLOOM, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PACKING DEVICE FOR 'VALVE STEIVIS.

Application filed December 19, 1923. Serial No. 681,515.

This invention relates topacking devices for valve stems of automobiles andthe like, and is an improvement on my Patent No. 1,470,276, granted October 9, 1923, and 1s 5 fully described in the following speclficatlon and shown in the accompanying drawlng, 1n which the figure shows a longitudinal section through a valve stem having the invention mounted thereon.

The embodiment is illustrated in connection with a valve having a valve stem 11 slidably mounted in the casting 12 and held upon its seat 13 by means of a spring 14, which is secured in a well known manner to 5 the lower part of the stem by means of the washer 15 and pin 16. This valve is raised in any well known manner as by means of the valve tappet 17, which is periodically raised by means of a cam shaft, not shown. It will be understood that the foregoing is well known practice in automobile construction.

In the case of the inlet valve, the passage A is under a greater or less degree of vacuum and when the engine is new the valve stem 11 fits its guide fairly snugly so that only a small amount of air is permitted to leak therearound. As the engine is used,

however, both the valve stem 11 and the hole 11a, in which it is guided, wear and as this wear increases the amount of air drawn into the passage A, around the valve stem 11, eventually becomes sufficient to disturb the mixture of air and fuel reaching the engine and cylinder.

I have overcome this trouble by removing the valve stem 10 and placin thereon a pad of yieldable material 18, suc as feltor asbestos, together with a washer 19, which is preferably made concaved or conical on its inner surface and .which isv ressed down upon the material 18 by a spr1ng 20, which is suiiciently stiff to maintain a pressure upon the washer 19 at all operative positions o the valve 10 but which is a much weaker spring than the valve spring 14, so that it is unable to raise the valve against the action of the spring 14.

TheV compression of the felt-like material 18 squeezes it about the valve stem 11 so as to greatly retard the tendency fol` air to flow around the valve stem. This action is in'- creased by makin the inner face of the washer 19 concave or lconical. Y

In some engines on which it is desirable to install this device, the space between the bottom of the valve and theupper end of the guide is small thereby permittingonly a short spring. and to improve the operationof the device, I have employed'a conical or cup-shaped Washer 19 made from fiat sheet metal and, when the lcup-shaped washer is in an inverted position, having a rim 19a at its lower end upon which the spring rests; this spring too has a fiat cross-section which gives greater flexibility for a given length of spring. The spring iscapable of being collapsed so as to be substantially the length of said washer, whereby it is adapted to accommodate valve guides of varying height.

While I have shown and described certain embodiments of my invention, it is to be understood that it is capable of many modications. Changes, therefore, in the construction and arrangement may be made without depar mg from the spirit and scope of the invention as disclosed in the appended claims, in which it is my intention to claim all novelty inherent in my invention as broadly as possible in view of the prior art.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination, an internal combustion engine, having a valve guide, a valve having a lstem slidable in said guide, a spring for normally holdin said valve von its' seat, packing surroun 'ng said stem and located within the intake passage of the engine, a cup-like washer around said packing, a flange at the lower edge of said washer, and

To 'overcome thisY objection a helical spring of flat cross-section partly enclosing said washer and bearing against said flange to press said packing against the guide, the spring when collapsed being substantially the length of said washer whereby it will accommodate valve guides of varying h eight.

2. A valve-rod `packing, comprising a packing disc of yieldable material centrally apertured for the passage of a valve stem, a sheet metal washer of invertedl cup shape having a flat centrally apertured top wall and a downwardly flaring circumferential wall bearing respectively on the upper side and periphery of said disc, said washer formed on its lower end with an annular 1spring seat, and a coil spring having a lower los packing disc of compressible material cenon the u per side and peri hery of said disc,

trally apertured to fit a valve stem, a sheet said was er formed on its ower end with an l metal washer of inverted cup shape having annular spring seat, and a coils ring having 10 a fiat top wall formed with a central aperon its lower end a flat coil seate in said seat 3 ture of greater diameter than the aperture and on its upper end a iat coil adapted to of the packing disc and a downwardly flarbear on the under side of the valve.

ing circumferential wall bearing respectively ALBERT C. LINDBLOOM. 

